The invention concerns a method for preparing alkoxyamines in a biphasic medium. In one embodiment, a controller comprises logic to receive reliability information from at least one component of a storage device coupled to the controller, store the reliability information in a memory communicatively coupled to the controller, generate at least one reliability indicator for the storage device, and forward the reliability indicator to an election module. Upon generation, each fingerprint may be stored in a license information database system along with relevant license information for that copy of the software application. The write unit writes sections to the clusters. The associative database can be used to integrate data from multiple different sources; form part of an Internet or other search engine; or used in other implementations. In some embodiments the storage module capacity model is a function fitted to data points representing the values of item-size descriptors of fully-stowed storage modules.